Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod.

And today we're going to be delving into the topic of monsters and

vampires in particular. Well actually the vampires would be the ones delving into us with their fangs.

And I have had a particular interest in vampires that on a conscious level was sparked by my daughter and

granddaughter who were my daughter was reading Ann and my granddaughter, who was then a young teen, was very, very

interested in all the Twilight movies. And I got curious about what on earth it was about vampires that was so interesting to them and it was easy enough to go and see the twilight movies and

then I was bitten by these figures who had their eternal life, a vampire will live forever unless specifically killed in some

specified ways, staked through the heart and various other things.

And I was also wildly curious about what it was in popular culture

that was making vampires all of a sudden, it seemed as if they were everywhere.

So I think about here it is, vampires live on blood,

and we all know that.

That's the only thing they can have as sustenance. And the blood

historically has been the life force. It's been a symbol for that. So they live forever forever but they are also called the undead

so it's a strange kind of life and of course the Ur vampire is our friend Dracula who is a century and a quarter

approximately old Dracula as the vampire was created and brought into popular culture, although the myth goes

into earlier times.

But it's Bram Stoker and Dracula in 1897, who really brought the vampire into popular culture.

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